Jennifer Wild is Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. Her book The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema (UCP, 2015) was shortlisted for the Best Moving Image Book Award by the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation and received Honorary Mention for the Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. She has published widely on the European historical avant- and neo-avant gardes and early cinema. She is currently completing a book about technological secularism in French social, cultural, and artistic history.